NASA's Europa Clipper mission, featuring SwRI’s MASPEX and UVS instruments, seeks to uncover clues about life-supporting ...

This instrument will also look for plumes of water vapor spraying up through vents in the surface; these jets have previously been detected by the Hubble Space Telescope. Europa's water plumes ...

Among the top puzzles scientists are hoping to tackle is whether Europa might be habitable—meaning it has the water, energy ... a decade ago hinted that such plumes could be erupting.

For one, astrobiologists need to make sure Europa has plumes, which are vents of water and other material erupting out from beneath the surface. Confirmed plumes would be a sign that Europa is a ...

The ground shook and a deafening engine roar echoed throughout Kennedy Space Center. Launching at 12:06 p.m. EDT Monday, the ...

The Europa Clipper mission launched using a SpaceX ... Other icy moons like Enceladus are known to give off epic plumes of water vapor from their surface, in which material from the oceans below ...

A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nasa launched the spacecraft at 12:06 local time (16:06 GMT) after ...

And if there are active plumes venting particles into ... if you like, on Europa where there’s evidence of liquid water not far below the surface, and evidence of organics on the surface ...

"Europa is an ice covered moon of Jupiter ... on the lookout for signs of water plumes and other ocean-driven features. Two magnetometers will probe the sub-surface ocean by studying electrical ...

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment.

Researchers believe Europa has one of the highest probabilities for life because of what they believe is water under miles of thick ice. In past missions, scientists have seen water plumes break ...